Thursday, March 19, 2009

It was hosted at the Great Bay Oyster House. He did a wonderful job planning and organizing everything.

Lots of wonderful friends were able to make it. Lots of wonderful friends were not able to make it and sent well wishes. My parents were in town since they came up for Jonathan's baptism. My sister Michelle and her family came up from Georgia, so it was good to see them.

All in all it was a great night.

Thank you to all my wonderful friends that came and helped me celebrate!

I received many wonderful gifts.

I also received some fun Over the Hill gifts, thanks!

Tyler and several of my friends got me the Cricut that I have been wanting for a while. I have enjoyed getting to use it. I am currently on the hunt on Ebay for more cartridges to use on it. I found one on Sunday night and have already purchased it with some Birthday money. Yeah!

Here are some great pictures from the evening... if you were there and have some more pictures I would love to get them to add to my files.

On Thursday March 5th Upwards had their award ceremony at Bethlehem Baptist. Sarah had to go for cheer leading. They had a magician and he did a wonderful show. Sarah got to join him onstage for one of his tricks. The cheerleaders did a cheer onstage also. It was a fun night. My parents had come into town, so they were able to come also.

On Saturday afternoon we headed to Clemson to watch my niece who lives in Georgia compete in a gymnastics meet.

We had a great time....

We met them before the meet at Eddie Spaghetti's and had some food before the meet.

We then had a little bit of time before the event started so we were able to walk around in the downtown area. The kids loved going into ALL the Clemson stores... how many Clemson stores do you need... there were like 3 or 4 in a row.... and they all had the same stuff!

Here is Paige waiting for her turn on the bars and watching her teammate's routine.

Jonathan and Sarah called her name so she would look at us so I could get this picture.

She looks so much like my sister it is amazing!

My sister Michelle and Sarah from across the arena...Paige won several medals in different events... I think she placed in every event but one, and she placed 2nd for her All around score.

Way to go Paige!!Here is her team when they won 1st Place for the all around team score!

Way to go Ultimate!Here are all the kids... Jake stayed home because he had baseball practice.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

This year we decided that since we are taking the kids to Disney for Spring Break that all the kids would bypass big parties this year. We told them they could pick their favorite restaurant and take 2 - 3 of their best friends out to eat to celebrate.

For Sarah's birthday she chose to take her 3 friends to Olive Garden to celebrate with her.

Here are her three good friends.

Sarah, Kate Elizabeth, Julia Kate and Lauren.

This is Sarah's best friend, Julia Kate. They have been best friends since Kindergarten. This year they are in the same class again.

We are officially the Griswold's... we took our Christmas tree... OH this is so embarrassing.. on Feb. 7th. The big rush was really because we were having Pure Love Now weekend at our house. We were hosting the 9th grade girls for the weekend.. so we had to take it down or embarrass our children in front of their friends...So we set off!

As you can see from the pictures our tree was still very nice looking.... oh I failed to mention it was a live tree....

Taking down our tree is a very long process... I have to take off all the ornaments and then line them all up by the year so they can be put away in their appropriate year bag. Mainly to make sure we don't lose any or leave them in the tree.. I also have a printed list were we check off each ornament as we take them off and put them in the appropriate year pile. We store all our special ornaments in one big box with lots of ziploc bags with each year labeled so that when we put the tree up we can start with our first year together "(1988) till the present... we get an ornament for Tyler and I and each child, each year... Here are all the special ornaments lined up from our living room to our front door.

About Me

I am a married mother of 4 beautiful children. I teach a 4K class at Anderson Mill Road Baptist Church. I have been married to my wonderful husband Tyler since October 10, 1992. We have 4 children Abigail Grace-15, Hannah Leigh-13, Jonathan Tyler-10 and Sarah Katherine-7. Each one is a blessing from God. We are actively involved in our children's lives and in our church, Anderson Mill Road Baptist Church.

Favorite Bible verses etc...

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures. Proverbs 24:3-4GRACE is God's Riches At Christ's ExpensePrayer involves coming to understand the mind of God, by spending time in the prescence of God, until we are so enamoured with the nature of God, that all we want is the will of God.